Hannah Dorf is a [2020] Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies major. She once thought she would be a Biology major and dreamt of studying the HIV virus in labs; now she has turned to the social sciences and humanities, but her passion to study the illness remains. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the… Read more “Managing Your Own Survival”: Buyers Clubs in the AIDS Epidemic
Andi Leff (’18) majored in Biological Chemistry at Grinnell College and will be attending medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the fall of 2018. Her favorite color is orange, she believes wholeheartedly that WAWA is the greatest gas station ever, and she advocates daily the east coast is the… Read more A Placebo is more than just a Sugar Pill
Nate Zaroban is a fourth-year Biological Chemistry major and Neuroscience concentrator at Grinnell College. After graduating from Grinnell, Nate will be attending the University of Nebraska College of Medicine starting in the Fall of 2018. He took the History of American Health and Medicine course to learn more about the profession that he will begin… Read more From Conjecture to Reality to Controversy: Blood Transfusions and Blood Banking in America
Jin Komerska is a second-year biochemistry major with plans to pursue a career in the medical field. Jin is interested in the historical and social factors that affect medicine, and she will be spending next year in Vietnam and New Zealand, learning about public health, development, and attitudes toward science across cultures. Clinical trials play… Read more Clinical Trials and Ethics, or Lack Thereof
Hannah Boggess is a [2018] Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and History double major. Outside of schoolwork, she enjoys playing with every dog she sees, watching The West Wing, and being a feminist killjoy. Compulsory heterosexuality, a term popularized by Adrienne Rich in the 1980s, is the overwhelming, hegemonic, enforced belief that all people are assumed—and required—to… Read more “Intolerable Lesbian Lovers:” Medicine’s Control of Deviant Sexuality and Gender Norms
Sam Curry is a fourth year Anthropology major from South Kingstown, Rhode Island. His main academic interests involve humans’ relationships with the nature and environmental health, and he hopes to work in environmental policy after graduation. His other main interest is racquetball. In 1912, pediatrician Henry L. Coit, mourning his son’s death from typhoid fever,… Read more “One of Our Greatest Investments”: Breastfeeding in the Early 20th Century United States
Nick Brule is a third year student at Grinnell College majoring in Biological Chemistry. Post Grinnell he plans to attend medical school. He is also a member of the men’s soccer team at Grinnell and enjoys solving Rubik’s cubes in his free time. The total knee replacement is one of the great developments within medicine in… Read more The Solution to Weak Knees: A History of the Total Knee Replacement
JP DeFranco is a second year biology/neuroscience major and active in athletics specifically golf, weight training and basketball. JP has worked extensively with youth coaching basketball and special needs students. He enjoys spending time with his family and watching movies. Mental health and mental health treatments have been a trendy contemporary topic in our country.… Read more The Outside Looking In: Social Influences on Mental Health
Charlie Rosenblum ’18 is an Economics and French major at Grinnell College interested in health economics and development. On March 23rd, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or ACA for short) into law. Like many actions that come with the presidency, this was followed by much controversy as critics… Read more The Effects of Medical Technology on The U.S. Economy
Sadie Tristam is a third year sociology major at Grinnell College. She is passionate about education and medicine fascinates her. Changes in education usually corresponded with changes in the time. We see this in our primary education system, and it is no different for medical education. Many scholars who study the development of medical education agree that the… Read more Development of American Medical Education
